June 7, 1939

Obituary: Joseph Roth, Author of Several Novels

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

oseph Roth, Austrian novelist and journalist, whose opposition to the Hitler regime lead him to leave Berlin for Paris in 1933 shortly after Hitler took power, died
in Paris on May 29, according to word received yesterday by Dr. Manfred Georg, secretary of the German-American Writers Association, an anti-Nazi group here. Once well-to-do because of his writings, which included the popular and well-reviewed
novel "Radetzky March," he had lived in increasingly distressed circumstances in the last few years in Paris and died of tuberculosis after a long illness.

Mr. Roth was born in Austria. He served four years in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the World War on the Russian front as a lieutenant and after the war became a reporter and then an essayist and columnist in Berlin for the Berliner Boersen Courier, a
financial newspaper which also carried literary and political articles.

His novel "Radetzky March," published in 1932 and widely read in translation in the United States, was said in 1933 by John Chamberlain, then daily book critic for The New York Times, to contain "the perfect formula
for the historical novel."

His Job, a novel of a modern Jew who endures the trials and tribulations of the biblical Job, was published abroad in 1930 and here the next year as a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.